I agree that they care just about money and nothing else. But considering the book was a criticism of the comic book industry as a whole and mainstream comics in specific, I don’t think they did understand it.
ofc they understood it but... it's not like they were just going to shut down DC and Marvel. Instead, a lot of folks went and started independent publishers, many of which do not focus on superheros, and now we have library shelves full of graphic novels in various genres.
We had an eccentric neighbor when I was growing up and she had a pretty damn big bomb shell that looked like one of those as a garden decoration. I'd say it was 5-6 feet high, although the last time I saw it, I was a teenager, so it might have been smaller than I remember. Big enough for it to clearly have once been something designed to be dropped out of a plane and explode.
And she was kind of a hippie lady (I grew up in a place where a lot of hippies settled and never stopped being hippies), so I think maybe it was meant to be an anti-war statement?
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"But we're just going to keep them armed and ready. Just in case."
Nothing ends, @[email protected]. Nothing ever ends.
Especially Watchmen being in print, as long as it means Alan Moore doesn't get the rights back!
Also never ending: DC missing the entire fucking point of Watchmen as they do whatever they can to exploit it.
Folding them into the main DC continuity... dear god. Talk about not understanding a book.
They understand the book. They just understand money a lot more.
I agree that they care just about money and nothing else. But considering the book was a criticism of the comic book industry as a whole and mainstream comics in specific, I don’t think they did understand it.
I feel like most readers don’t understand it.
ofc they understood it but... it's not like they were just going to shut down DC and Marvel. Instead, a lot of folks went and started independent publishers, many of which do not focus on superheros, and now we have library shelves full of graphic novels in various genres.
They already were being printed by third party publishers in other genres. They just weren't taken seriously. That was the Black Freighter part.
"Don't worry, they'll be safely disposed-of!"
We had an eccentric neighbor when I was growing up and she had a pretty damn big bomb shell that looked like one of those as a garden decoration. I'd say it was 5-6 feet high, although the last time I saw it, I was a teenager, so it might have been smaller than I remember. Big enough for it to clearly have once been something designed to be dropped out of a plane and explode.
And she was kind of a hippie lady (I grew up in a place where a lot of hippies settled and never stopped being hippies), so I think maybe it was meant to be an anti-war statement?
Oh wow, kind of a "swords into plowshares kind of thing" only a bit more terrifying!
"Oops. Accidentally leaned on the launch button... well, smoke 'em if you got 'em..."